Managing application modernization A survey by Wakefield Research last year reported that an astonishing 92% of enterprises were working on at least one application modernization project. Perhaps, not quite as surprisingly, nearly 80% also said that these efforts had not always panned out as per plan. I can attest to the fact that these projects […]
Strategizing application modernization We hear a lot about application modernization in discussions about enterprise IT. The usual motivators for such conversations are the need to bring agility into the enterprise IT strategy to keep up with rapidly changing customer needs and market dynamics. But the truth is that most CIOs dread these conversations. The dirty […]
Cost control through application maintenance Gartner has projected that over this year, over 40% of all enterprise IT spending will go towards application development and support. Half of that, so about 1 dollar out of every 5 of total spending is likely to be dedicated to the maintenance of existing systems. That is a significant […]
Managing the enterprise application explosion A MuleSoft survey of over 1000 IT leaders of global enterprises earlier this year said that on average these enterprises were using a staggering 1060 applications! This was a growth of over 10% over the previous survey from the year before. That’s an extraordinarily large, complex, and involved application ecosystem. […]
Cost savings through application rationalization Many CIOs are being drawn into meetings with CFOs these days. On the agenda is cost control and management. In challenging times, that’s only natural especially when you consider how IT investments had surged in the last few years. In many ways, that’s a great place to start because the […]
i-Source’s Peoplesoft Application Support Services We have long been known for our Application Support Services. We are fortunate to have deep customer relationships where we are supporting applications ranging from the age-old, but still popular Peoplesoft to domain-specific solutions like Salesforce’s Veeva for the healthcare sector. But over the last few years, I have noticed […]
Enhancing returns on data analytics investments As enterprises started seeing visible impact from their data analytics efforts, the ambitions of their data analytics programs grew. CIOs started looking at all the data sources scattered around the enterprise and wondering what it would take to utilize all that data. Data integration was the first step as […]
Enterprise adoption of SaaS applications There is very little doubt that enterprise adoption of SaaS applications is growing at an accelerating pace. There’s already a long line of legacy applications that are looking to transform themselves into cloud-native avatars. Business leaders everywhere swear by the economy, scalability, accessibility, and flexibility they get by turning to […]
Migrating enterprise applications to the cloud IDC projects that about half of all organisations were looking to replace their current enterprise applications over the next 3 years. Many of those were looking to move their applications to the cloud. In fact, they project that about 66% of all enterprise application spending in 2027 will be […]